Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 05:28:51 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: wcarchive press release Message-ID: <199905261228.FAA02068@implode.root.com>
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I wrote this last night and released it this morning... INTERNET'S BUSIEST SOFTWARE ARCHIVE REACHES NEW DOWNLOAD MILESTONE San Francisco, CA., May 26, 1999 Walnut Creek CDROM, Inc. announced today that their popular software archive at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com has surpassed the one trillion bytes (one terabyte) milestone of files downloaded per day from a single server machine. The current record set on Sunday of 1.39TB of file downloads was made possible while testing a new gigabit ethernet connection with the company's Internet service provider, CRL Network Services. "We're very pleased with how the gigabit ethernet performed during these tests", said Robert Bruce, Walnut Creek's President and founder. "This new bandwidth capability coupled with the incredible performance of the FreeBSD Operating System software has allowed us to raise the bar of Internet server performance to an entirely new level." The server machine, also known as "wcarchive", was recently upgraded to a single processor NetFRAME 9201 system from Micron Electronics, Inc. and is capable of handling more than 10,000 simultaneous downloads. Walnut Creek CDROM was founded in 1991 by its current president and owner, Mr. Robert Bruce. Since the beginning, Walnut Creek CDROM has maintained a philosophy of creating superior quality CDROM software products at a reasonable price to the consumer. The company is also the premier CDROM supplier of the popular FreeBSD and Slackware Linux Operating Systems. Walnut Creek CDROM provides these and a vast collection of other software free of charge to Internet users on its FTP site at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com. With more than 750,000 visitors a day that download more than 1 terabyte (1000 gigabytes) of files, ftp.cdrom.com is widely known as the world's most popular public FTP software archive. For more information about Walnut Creek CDROM and its products, the company can be contacted at (800) 786-9907 (U.S. toll-free), (925) 674-0783 (international), by fax at (925) 674-0821, or by visiting their web site at http://www.cdrom.com. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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